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In reply to the discussion: What's most responsible for keeping Democrats home? [View all]NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)58. I don't think many Democrats will be staying home.
At least no more than usual. Voter turnout is usually abysmally low in this country, but I don't think this election will be any different than normal.
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I think it is a mixture of disliking a candidate, the political and nstional environment at the...
hrmjustin
Oct 2014
#3
My guess is a sensed lack of relevance, but in WI the mid-term pattern goes back 60 yrs
HereSince1628
Oct 2014
#13
So, that would make the Republican voters SMARTER than the DEM voters, yes???
blkmusclmachine
Oct 2014
#18
A DEM Establishment that refuses to cater to the DEM base, but is more than happy accommodating the
blkmusclmachine
Oct 2014
#17
It is laugh out loud funny watching the divisive threads just before election time.
Rex
Oct 2014
#20
I'm voting. And everyone else I know has committed to voting. I think all this "why are they staying
blkmusclmachine
Oct 2014
#21
You were the one carping about "progressives" in your other disruptive META OP--don't blame a poster
MADem
Oct 2014
#60
NSA spying, Hillary Clinton, sky rocketing college costs, plumeting wages, poverty,
whereisjustice
Oct 2014
#28
Why would you stay home if you were unhappy with what elected Democrats are doing? That seems like a
Chathamization
Oct 2014
#41
Glen Greenwald, Amy Goodman, Cornell West, People that indict the actions
orpupilofnature57
Oct 2014
#56